1. What Spanish phrase in the story translates to “It is not good for your health”?
(a) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe
(b) En el otro lado
(c) Mi querida
(d) No es bueno para la salud

2. What word from the story means “creek” in Spanish?
(a) Farmacia
(b) Zocalo
(c) Arroyo
(d) Telenovelas

3. What does the narrator say Cleofilas had always said she would do “if a man, any man, were to strike her”?
(a) Use pepper spray
(b) Call the police
(c) Strike back
(d) Run away

4. What Spanish phrase is translated in the story as “You or No One”?
(a) No es bueno para la salud
(b) Pues, alla de los indios, quien sabe.
(c) En el otro lado
(d) Tu o Nadie

5. Cleofilas makes the discovery in “Woman Hollering Creek” that the only love that endures is what?
(a) The love between boy and girl
(b) The love between God and man
(c) The love between a person and themselves
(d) The love between parent and child

Short Answer Questions

1. In comparing Seguin, Texas to her hometown, Cleofilas notes that in Seguin there is no “huddled whispering on the church steps each Sunday” because here the whispering begins where at sunset?

2. Graciela asks her friend to take Cleofilas to the bus station in what city during her phone call?

3. What Spanish term does the author use to refer to a rude or indecent person?

4. How is Juan Pedro said to laugh, according to the narrator?

5. What does the laundromat attendant first yell at Cleofilas for, according to the narrator?

(see the answer key)

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